academic Publications
Single-Authored Books
The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Age of Revolutions (New Haven and London: Yale U.P., 2019). pp. viii + 298.
Selected Reviews:
English Historical Review
H-Net
Hispanic American Historical Review
Journal of British Studies
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770-1850 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge U.P., 2013; paperback 2014). pp. xiv + 450.
Selected Reviews:
English Historical Review
American Historical Review
H-Net
The Americas
Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; paperback 2011). pp. xi + 244.
Selected reviews:
European History Quarterly
Historica
Journal of Modern History
Hispanic American Historical Review
Revista de Indias
Edited Volumes, Guest-Edited Journal Special Issues, and Critical Editions
(Co-Editor). Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives (University of Virginia Press, 2020) pp. xiv + 260.
Selected Reviews:
H-Net
(Co-Editor). “New Approaches to the Political History of the Spanish-Atlantic World, c. 1750-1850”. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 24:2 (2018).
(Co-Editor). Critical edition of a new translation of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Report on the Agrarian Law (1795) and Other Writings. Economic Ideas that Built Europe Series (New York and London: Anthem Press, 2016; paperback 2018). pp. xiv + 209.
"Liberalism in the Early Nineteenth-century Iberian World". History of European Ideas 41:2 (2015).
(Co-Editor). Connections After Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s. Atlantic Crossings Series (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013). pp. x + 330.
Selected Reviews:
Journal of Latin American Studies
Hispanic American Historical Review
History Today
Reviews in History
(Co-editor) “Europe and Latin America in the 1820s”. European History Quarterly 41:3 (2011).
Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830. Empires and the Making of the Modern World Series (Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009; paperback published by Routledge in 2016). pp. xviii + 404.
Selected reviews:
English Historical Review
Journal of Latin American Studies
Dieciocho
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
"The Maintenance of Hispanic Dominance in Latin America". In David Parrott and Gabor Agoston, eds., The Cambridge History of War, vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 513-529.
"The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World". In Wim Klooster, ed., The Age of Atlantic Revolutions, vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 429-449.
“Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century: Informal Empire, Arbitration, and the Durability of an Asymmetrical Alliance”. English Historical Review 135 (issue 575) (2020): 836-859.
“The ‘Parry Report’ (1965) and the Establishment of Latin American Studies in the United Kingdom”.
Historical Journal 62:1 (2019): 219-240.
“Império e Nação nas Monarquias Portuguesa e Brasileira”. In José Murilo de Carvalho, Rui Ramos, and Isabel Corrêa da Silva, eds., A Monarquia Constitucional dos Braganças em Portugal e no Brasil (1822-1910) (Lisbon: A Leya/Don Quixote, 2018), pp. 34-56.
"Romantic Liberalism in Spain and Portugal, c. 1825-1850". Historical Journal 58:2 (2015): 481-511
“Colonial Societies”. In H.M. Scott, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, vol. II (Oxford and New York: Oxford U.P., 2015), pp. 280-306.
“Cádiz y las Fábulas de la Historiografía Occidental”. In Roberto Breña, ed., Cádiz a Debate: Actualidad, Contexto y Legado (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico, 2014), pp. 49-62.
"Colonies and Empire in the Political Thought of Hegel and Marx". In Sankar Muthu, ed., Empire and Modern Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012), pp. 292-323.
“The Brazilian Origins of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution”. European History Quarterly 41:3 (2011): 444-471.
"The Dissolution of the Spanish Atlantic Monarchy". The Historical
Journal 52:1 (2009): 175-212.
“State-Civil Society Cooperation and Conflict in the Spanish Empire: The Intellectual and Political Activities of the Ultramarine Consulados and Economic Societies, c. 1780-1810”. Journal of Latin American Studies 39:2 (2007): 263-298.